Paragraph 175 / a Telling Pictures production ; produced and directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman ; director of research/associate producer, Klaus Müller ; producers, Michael Ehrenzweig, Janet Cole ; writer, Sharon Wood.

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Overview

Summary: Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, many of whom were interred in concentration camps during World War II because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175, which states: An unnatural sex act committed between persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights may also be imposed.
Format: Video
Published: [New York] : New Yorker Films, 2000
Locale: Germany
Germany (West)
Other Authors/Editors: Epstein, Robert P., 1955-
Friedman, Jeffrey B.
Müller, Klaus, 1959-
Ehrenzweig, Michael.
Cole, Janet (Film producer)
Wood, Sharon.
Everett, Rupert.
Telling Pictures.
New Yorker Films.
Notes: Narrator, Rupert Everett ; director of photography, Bernd Meiners ; editor, Dawn Logsdan ; music, Tibor Szemzö ; co-producer, Howard Rosenman.

VHS, Dolby.

English, German, and French with English subtitles.

Language: English German French
Physical Description: 1 videocassette (81 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subjects: National socialism and homosexuality--Germany--History. Gay people--Nazi persecution. Gay people--Germany--Interviews. Homophobia--Germany--Case studies. Homosexuality--Law and legislation--Germany (West) Documentary films. Homosexuals. Homophobia. Homosexuality. Video recordings. Case studies. Interviews.

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